Watlings Castle is located on San Salvador Island. This site consists of the ruins of a late 1700s to early 1800s building called the Sandy Point plantation manor house.
The plantation was constructed during the Loyalist Era from blocks of local Pleistocene calcarenite limestone. The substantial ruins include a three-story great house, kitchen, slave quarters, barns, and boundary walls. The plantation was used mostly to raise cattle. The lookout tower, which overlooked French Bay.
Despite the name, “Watling’s Castle” was not built by anyone named Watling, and no one named Watling ever lived there. Watlings refers to an an older name of the island called Watling’s Island. John Watling was a Caribbean-area & South American-area pirate in the late 1600s. He lived long before this structure was built and used.
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1967 – Dukane Press Inc (#2500 Series)
